Four people being held at an immigration facility in Newark, New Jersey, have escaped, according to the US Department of Homeland Security.
A department spokesperson told the BBC that four detainees have gotten out of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility and "additional law enforcement partners" are helping search for them.
Their identites have not been released and details of the escapes are unclear.
There were reports on Thursday of unrest within the facility, where crowds of protesters have been gathering and the local mayor and congresswoman were recently arrested. Lawyers for detainees said that a group of migrants inside had started a revolt over a lack of food and other poor conditions.
The detention centre had then gone into a lockdown, the lawyers told US media.
